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lundi 8 février 2016

Piecing Myself Together in Sunny Spain

Yes, it's PYT Tuesday again!

And many thanks to Anthea for hosting this linky again despite suffering from a Western Australia heatwave!

If anyone has an EPP project on the go then please do link up with Anthea - the more the merrier!

I brought my box of hexies with me and have been basting a few here and there! But I also brought my swap hexies for February to work on and these are now complete and ready to post.

These are off to Australia

And these to the UK

It took us two days to drive down to our apartment here on Vera Playa, Almeria Province. On the way we stopped at an old mill about an hour south of Zaragoza. A family run hotel - simple but clean and excellent food. Part of the old mill machinery still works - just for show, not to mill - and the owner is happy to switch it on for visitors to see.

The road from Zaragoza to Valencia is called the Autovia Mudejar, the bridges decorated with Mudejar stars and related sculptures. This George and Dragon is a favourite of mine standing guard over the motorway.

Our apartment is a five minute walk from the sea and this laguna which is always full of birds.

Behind me as I took the photograph is an excellent restaurant and several bars and the promenade going south takes us to Garrucha in just 20 minutes. We like to walk there along the beach and back along the promenade.

From the balcony outside our sitting room we look down onto a lovely green walkway between apartment blocks. This is looking north

And this is south

In the distance you can see the Cabrera mountains behind Mojacar.

As you can see virtually all the apartments are empty at this time of year - except of course the one whose balcony is directly opposite ours!

I love the way the orange trees are pruned into wheels here

and the beautiful bougainvillea which are in flower. This red one near our apartment is particularly striking.

And yes! I have been working in my journal - here is a page of prints I made based on the Mudejar star

plus a few beach finds.

Wishing you all a great week and I'm looking forward to catching up with all the other PYT posts here

It looks as if you're having a beautiful time, your sketch book is looking beautiful too - love the greeny yellow you've chosen to paint with, I wonder if that vibrant bougainvillea will make its way into your book too!Enjoy your holiday.

don't know how I missed this!Thanks for linking up Lin - wow I love your pics - the buildings, colours & gardens are wonderful - we should do more of that here in WA rather than so many silly people wanting English-style gardens in a dry place like Western Australia!The bougainvillea is magnificent!!

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About me

Hello - I am Lin and I have been living in France for 23 years with my partner and now husband Philip. We have a small house, a large garden and an amazing view!
I love to sew - patchwork, embroidery, mixed media, you name it I will give it a try! My main aim with my blog is to show you the work I am doing but every now and then I will show pictures of my travels or things that excite me in the garden.
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